This summer Festival Inspire brings you more than 7 weeks of full festival programming over 4 months from May – end of August, 2022!
Check the poster above for all the details and see the Home Page for programming of each location on the tour! As programs become available the buttons will become clickable! We’re doing our best to get you info as soon as we can so you can join us on the tour!
Please note: Festival Inspire is FREE and made for EVERYONE so whoever you are – you’re invited!
Many of our members contacted us to say that they were interested in our last anti-oppression intensive workshop but weren’t able to make it on a weekend. With that in mind, we’re re-offering the same workshop during the work week!
Carmel is back to facilitate, this time on Wednesday and Thursday, May 25th and 26th.
This workshop continues the series presented to ArtsLink NB members on business development and career-management subjects. Past topics have included budgeting, documentation, and critical arts writing. The decision to hold this workshop virtually was made due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to allow participants to attend from across the province.
Workshop Description
Dreaming Inventive Futures: Anti-Oppression in the Creative Sector is a two-day workshop and discussion space that combines foundational anti-oppressive modalities, peer-based learning, personal reflection, and active discussion as teaching tools. During this digital space, participants will explore approaches to anti-racist curation, responsible and curious storytelling, organizationally care-based artistic practices rooted in disability justice frameworks, address ways to disrupt genre and aesthetic hierarchies within cultural industries, and discuss sustainable methods to intentional cross-practice collaboration.
These themes will be grounded in disrupting tokenism in the arts sector, moving beyond defensiveness and fear in creative work, imagination, and accessibility. The aim is that participants will feel supported and motivated to engage in systems change work within the arts as well as more confident in continuing anti-oppressive conversations in their work personally and professionally.
About Carmel Farabakhsh
Carmel Farahbakhsh (they/them) is a community educator, arts maker, and youth worker. They have collaborated on the Khyber Centre for the Arts board for four years, and are enjoying their new position as co-director of local music festival EVERYSEEKER. They recently transitioned from a five-year term coordinating South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre to working as the Executive Director at the Youth Project, seeing a direct link between this community work and access to creative spaces and the arts community.
As the Executive Director of the Youth Project, Carmel holds a youth-centric approach to organizational movement and support. Carmel builds their vision from their community education background and aims to apply an anti-racist and trauma-informed framework to their work. They also collaborate and organize with local initiatives, artist-run-centres, and community partners with an aim to create wider 2SQTBIPOC community and support systems within the HRM.
Registration
The sessions will take place May 25 and 26, 2022. The intensive workshop will be held virtually via Zoom and is free for members of ArtsLink NB. Sessions will run from 9am to 4pm each day. To register, cultural sector workers should send an email to Jericho Knopp, jeri@artslinknb.com, with their name, their field or organization, and a brief description of why they’re interested in taking the workshop.
Experience a compelling collection of student work at our biggest collaborative exhibit of the year!
The 2022 NBCCD EXPO features student excellence in: 3D Digital Design, Ceramics, Fashion Design, Foundation Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Jewellery/Metal Arts, Photography/Videography, Textile Design, and Wabanaki Visual Arts.
Join us at the opening reception on Friday, May 6 from 5pm – 7:30pm at the Saint John Arts Centre. Continue to visit the EXPO until June 30.
NBCCD student work will be available for purchase.
We invite artists, arts collectives, curators, scholars, or arts professionals to submit proposals for presentations, performances, temporary installations, interventions, or workshops on the theme of FUTURE POSSIBLE for ArtsLink NB‘s inaugural Arts Atlantic Symposium.
July 29, 2022
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July 31, 2022
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AREA 506 celebrates the best of New Brunswick through music, culture and goods. What started out in 2016 as a local festival has turned into a permanent East Coast experience on the Saint John waterfront. Whether you like the funky sounds of the saxophone or the upbeat rhythm of electric pop, we have it all!
AREA 506 presented by Bell Aliant is set to take place over the New Brunswick Day long weekend, extending the new AREA 506 Waterfront Container Village into the biggest party event of the summer. The Saint John waterfront will come alive from Friday July 29 through Sunday July 31, providing three days of music, culture and goods with headline sets from Arkells, The Glorious Sons, Sloan and an incredibly diverse supporting lineup.
Country Singer/Songwriter and the recipient of the 2021 International Singer songwriters Association Award for Entertainer of the Year Award, Aaron Halliday is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter who lives in Kelowna, BC. Aaron has more than 20 years of playing behind him, with a wide open road ahead.
Held In partnership with BGC Greater Saint John, Chroma NB‘s Youth Creative Nights are monthly arts engagement events, hosted by 2SLGBTQIA+ facilitators and held for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and allies between 12 and 18 years old.
Creative Nights aim to break down social isolation and foster a safe space where participants can make friends, learn a new skill, and creatively nurture their sense of self within a community of like-minded individuals.
We are pleased to be partnering with Brilliant Labs on this tech-savvy workshop. Mi’kmaw abstract artist Jan Martin will demonstrate how to take, then insert photos into found images using Photoshop. Basics of Photoshop will be taught, so no experience needed.
Please wear a mask to this event. Please register using this link.
Jan Martin is a Mi’kmaw non-binary painter and abstract artist from Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation. Jan, who started out as a photographer, mixes their love of painting with their photography background – digitizing and melding together real-life paintings with photographs.
Using Photoshop, Jan will show us to do this ourselves. No experience required.Chroma’s Creative Nights are monthly arts events, held exclusively by and for 2SLGBTQIA+ and gender diverse individuals. They aim to break down social isolation, fostering a safer space where participants can make friends, learn a new skill, and creatively nurture their sense of self within a community of like-minded individuals.
This event is free. Creative Connections is a wheelchair accessible space with a gender neutral bathroom. Please wear a mask when not eating or drinking.
Maximum 8 participants for this workshop, so book your spot soon.
The Saint John Arts Centre (SJAC) is excited to welcome back Jane Geurts to teach Studio 65+ Watercolours. As Jane guides you through a variety of techniques, you will discover the qualities that make watercolour such an enjoyable and unique experience. This workshop is designed for beginners who have never picked up a brush before, through to intermediate level participants.
In this workshop you will explore:
The characteristics of watercolour painting
How to mix your paints
How to use watercolour washes, wet-on-wet techniques, flat wash, graded wash
The basic colour palette
Watercolour lifting techniques
The composition of good landscape painting
How to create effective looking landscapes/seascapes
Creating light in your landscapes/seascapes
How to paint moody watercolour skies
Matting and framing techniques for watercolour paintings
Workshop materials kit is purchased from the instructor on week one and includes:
Watercolour Paper: 140lb and 90lb cold press sheets
Palette: warm and cool versions of red, blue and yellow, plus black and white
Brushes: round, flat and angle
Drawing pencil
White magic eraser
Mixing palette/plate
8”x10” Matt for a 5”x7” painting
Foam core board
Instructional notes
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Age group: Seniors and Adults Time: 1:30-4pm
Dates: Tuesday afternoons – April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2022
Duration: 4 weeks
Tuition fee: $110 for adults / Seniors aged 65+ are eligible for a 20% discount on all adult workshops; enter coupon code SENIOR65 at checkout.
Supplies fee: $20, purchased from your instructor at the first class
The Saint John Arts Centre is pleased to welcome back senior artist Jane Geurts, who will guide you through an intuitive approach to watercolour painting. You will engage your imagination and creativity in an exploration of abstract compositions with this liquid medium. This workshop is designed for participants who have moved beyond the beginner’s level.
Age group: Adults
Time: 6-8:30pm
Dates: April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2022
Duration: 4 weeks
Fees: $115 tuition
Supplies: Participants will purchase a $20 materials kit from the instructor on week 1
Skill level: Intermediate / ‘beyond beginner’
Capacity: 10 students
Seniors Discount: Seniors aged 65+ are eligible for a 20% discount on all adult workshops; enter coupon code SENIOR65 at checkout.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Jane Geurts is a designer and painter with a penchant for watercolour. She is well known for her large scale watercolours that grace residential and commercial spaces across the country. Her artwork has been purchased for public and private collections in Canada, the US, and Holland, and she has lectured and conducted workshops around the globe. Jane spent more than thirty years as Head of Design at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, and has acted as a design consultant for several commercial and residential design firms, with her work being featured on HGTV
